58 HOW BEASTS REACHED THE NEW WORLD. 



LIB. i. Wolves, Tigers, and other ravenous beastes, which breede 



Aug., lib. no profit to men, seeing there is no doubt but Elephants, 



cap d6 7. imt Horses, Oxen, Dogges, and other beastes which serve 

 man to vse, have been expresly carried in shippes, as we 

 see at this day brought from the East into Europe, and 

 transported from Europe to Peru, although the voiages be 

 verie long. And by what meanes these beastes which yeeld 

 no profit, but are very hurtefull (as Wolves and others of 

 that wilde nature), should passe to the Indies, supposing, as 

 it is certaine, that the deluge drowned all the earth. In 

 which Treatise this learned and holy man laboures to free 

 himselfe of these difficulties, saying that they might swim 

 vnto these Hands, or that some have carried them thither 

 for their delight in hunting; or that, by the will of God, 

 they had been newly created of the earth, after the same 



Gen. i. maner of the first creation, when God said, &quot; Let the earth 

 bring forth everie living- thing according to his kinde, 

 Cattle, and creeping Wormes, and the beastes of the field, 

 every one in his kinde.&quot; But if we shall apply this solu 

 tion to our purpose the matter will remaine more doubt- 

 full, for, beginning at the last point, it is not likely, accord 

 ing to the order of Nature, nor conformable to the order of 

 government established by God, that perfect creatures, as 

 Lions, Tigers, and Wolves, should be engendered of the 

 earth, as we see that Eattes, Frogges, Bees, and other 

 imperfect creatures are commonly engendered. Moreover, 

 to what purpose is that which the scripture saieth, and 



Gen. vii. doth so often repeate, &quot; Thou shalt take of all the beastes 

 and birdes of the aire, seven and seven, male and female, 

 to maintaine generation vpon earth&quot;; if such beasts after 

 the deluge should be created againe after a new kinde of 

 creation without coniunction of male and female. And 

 heerevpon might grow another question. Seeing such crea 

 tures are breeding on the earth (according to this opinion) 

 wherefore are they not likewise in all other partos of the 



